Bengali Actor Swarup Dutta Dies of Cardiac Arrest in Kolkata

Veteran Bengali actor Swarup Dutta, who appeared in films such as Sagina Mahato and Apanjan directed by Tapan Sinha, died at a city hospital on Wednesday, a hospital official said.

Dutta, who was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of a stroke on Saturday, died at 6.10 am, a spokesman of the hospital said.

Doctors detected a blood clot in his brain and had put him on ventilator support, he said.

Dutta suffered a cardiac arrest this morning and breathed his last, the official said.